Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry comprised of three phrases.
Traditional haiku uses 17 syllables (5:7:5) but contemporary haiku in English often ignores this rule. A haiku is typically about nature, the earth and the natural world and are designed to be thought-provoking. These original haiku poems are by Anthony Rutledge and are mostly written in the contemporary free style format.
There are over 2,000 Haiku on this site in ten different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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open tent
last in sunset...
the river passes on to night
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green and brown caterpillar
in a beak
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the broken hearing
of red rustled leaves
camping
even in magpie songs
a cricket adds hers
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pockmarked craters
on the face of the moon
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eucalypti touching
across the river
camping
an afterimage of the crow--
where she watched me
camping
what cicadas don't know
in the last of their cries
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a dove's quick wing
followed by a hawk
weekend camp
touching wildflowers
I cannot know the nectars they hold
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all night
the sound frosts crackle
camp fire
the Big Bang expanding the space
I sit in
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